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BMC rolled out its “Annual Review 2018” research-in-progress report. “Over the past year at BMC, we’ve been working as hard as ever to improve our publishing services, continually innovating to meet the needs of our authors and the wider research community,” says Rachel Burley, publishing director.

The company is piloting a project to increase transparency in the submission and peer-review process, and it is working on expanding beyond biomedicine into physical and applied sciences by introducing new journals in these fields over the next year. Additionally, from July 2017 to July 2018, BMC published almost 32,500 OA articles in 300-plus journals.